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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has thrown down the rhetorical gauntlet with her American Privacy Restoration Act, a bold move to torch the Patriot Act, dismantle the surveillance state, and drag the Fourth Amendment back from the abyss. Is someone in Washington daring to challenge the dystopian machinery that’s been obliterating our liberties for over two decades?
Luna didn’t mince words with Breitbart: the Patriot Act, she said, has let “rogue actors” in our intelligence agencies erect a surveillance behemoth—unaccountable, sprawling, and the envy of every tinpot dictator in the world. Born in the post-9/11 hysteria, this legislative monstrosity gave the NSA carte blanche to rifle through our calls, texts, emails, and metadata without a warrant. All they had to do was whisper “terrorism” and call it “relevant.”
The Patriot Act was pitched as a temporary shield against the specter of jihadists after 9/11. “They hate our freedom,” we were told, as Congress set about eradicating that very freedom. Congress has been reapproving this abomination every few years like obedient lapdogs.
Meanwhile, the official 9/11 fairy tale—that a band of cave-dwelling fanatics outwitted the world’s most advanced air defenses—has collapsed under its own weight. Speculation that the Israelis were involved has since swirled. And Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth have laid bare the absurdities, like Building 7 imploding on cue. The whole narrative has been a pretext. The Patriot Act was always the real prize. Remember, as Antony C. Sutton showed us, the ruling class regularly employs the Hegelian dialectic: create the problem, arouse the reaction, then offer the “solution”—thesis, antithesis, synthesis. The problem was “terrorism,” the reaction was fear and loathing, and the “solution” was to strip Americans of their rights.
This wasn’t just a one-off power grab. The Patriot Act became the cornerstone of a bureaucratic empire, spawning horrors like the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act’s indefinite detention provisions. With a flick of a pen, any corrupt apparatchik could brand you an “associated force” of terrorism and toss you in a cell, no trial required. Due process? Shredded. Civil liberties? A fading memory. And who let this happen? The “pro-freedom” Republican Party, naturally.
If the so-called freedom party wants to purge the neocon stench that clings to it, it needs to go all-in on repealing this travesty. But the Republican ranks still crawl with Patriot Act cheerleaders like Mike Rogers, who now play “American First” dress-up while scheming to crawl back into power and kiss the deep state’s boots. Kicking this act to the curb would do much to show that Trump’s GOP won’t tolerate the betrayals that made the party a laughingstock.
Let’s cut the nonsense: the “foreign terror” bogeyman was “neocon” prestidigitation to dupe Americans into surrendering their rights. The real enemy isn’t some desert warlord (or Iran); it’s our own central government, a colossus that makes China and Russia look like boy scouts. Our real enemy is not a foreign nation but our own crushing federal behemoth. The deep state’s ability to obliterate lives dwarfs any external threat. America won’t soar until this domestic tyrant is beheaded. How about eliminating the TSA while they’re at it?
The slightest possibility for the GOP’s redemption lies in starving the federal beast and uprooting the laws that have fed its growth. Republicans sank the nation by embracing centralization. Decentralization is the key to liberty. We need a million “Covenant Rising” communities, like the one featured in my new book, The Cabal Question. Repealing the Patriot Act would be a blazing first step toward rediscovering decentralization, local power, and the liberties that once defined America. But I wouldn’t hold your breath. We need to take the initiative and undertake Project Decentralized Revolution—on our own.
Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books. Michael was a candidate for the nomination for president in the Libertarian Party, who fell just short of winning the nomination in the last round of voting. You can support his work on Substack here: https://rectenwald.substack.com/
